4a: Firm Description
Cedar Mountain Advisors was established in July 2006 by Bradley D. Patrick and Adam L. Woods. Our main office is
located in Lake Oswego, Oregon.
4a1: Principal Members
Bradley D. Patrick, Chief Compliance Officer: Mr. Patrick may be contacted by email at
[email protected] or by telephone at (503) 224-6868.
Adam L. Woods, Managing Member: Mr. Woods may be contacted by email at
[email protected]
or by telephone at (503) 224-6868.
4b: Types of Advisory Services
Cedar Mountain Advisors offers a variety of investment advisory services to our clients. We work with our clients to
identify their investment goals and objectives as well as risk tolerance in order to create an initial portfolio allocation
designed to complement the clients’ financial goals and objectives.
We offer the following programs to help meet your needs:
Cedar Mountain Advisors Investment Advisory Program
Cedar Mountain Advisors offers discretionary investment advisory services through its stand-alone Investment
Advisory Program (IAP). Our representatives will assist you in establishing your IAP account at our selected third-party
custodian, Charles Schwab, and/or annuity comapany. Based on suitability factors such as your investment objectives,
time horizon, performance expectations and risk tolerance, one of the IAP’s proprietary investment models will be
assigned. These model portfolios will determine the specific investments chosen for your account. The model
portfolios are distinguished from one another based on their asset allocation and aggregate percentage of equites to
fixed income. It is our goal to choose the right model for each of our clients based on the above factors.
Our IAP models are developed, monitored and updated by your representative. Updates to our proprietary models
will result in discretionary transactions being executed in your accounts on a periodic basis. You will receive a summary
of these transactions on your Charles Schwab custodial statements. You may also have the ability to view your accounts
online.
Various factors such as market shifts, absolute and relative investment performance, macroeconomic fundamentals,
forward expectations and analysis, and other factors may trigger rebalancing of your portfolio. Strategic as well as
tactical investment strategies may be employed within these client accounts, with the goal of providing adequate
risk/reward characteristics via broad diversification across asset class and style categories. Open ended mutual funds
as well as exchange traded funds (ETF’s) will be utilized along with other investment types determined suitable by the
advisor. Be aware that all transaction related expenses, and other fees charged by the custodian will be billed to your
account. A complete schedule of these custodian related expenses will be provided upon request. In addition, all fund
expenses which include internal operating expenses, 12b-1 fees, redemption fee’s etc. may be charged.
SEI Asset Management Program
The SEI Asset Management Program (SEI Program) is an institutional asset allocation program that Cedar Mountain
Advisors uses in the management of client account assets. Cedar Mountain Advisors assists you in the establishment
of an SEI Program account at SEI Private Trust Company (SPTC). All account transactions are processed and cleared
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through SPTC. The SEI Program uses asset allocation portfolios developed by Cedar Mountain Advisors. Cedar
Mountain Advisors may also use SEI asset allocation models which are managed by an SEI affiliated investment advisory
firm. These portfolios generally consist of SEI Family of Institutional Mutual Funds and other securities approved by
SEI to be held in an account.
Retirement Program
Cedar Mountain Advisors LLC Retirement Plan Advisory Agreement was developed for qualified retirement plans
(Plans) desiring discretionary and/or non-discretionary investment advisory consulting services. Cedar Mountain
Advisor’s status is that of an “investment advisor” for purposes of ERISA Section 3(21) and/or 3(38) to the extent of
the provision of discretionary advisory services under a Plan agreement.
The types of investment advisory services that we offer include:
Nondiscretionary Advisory Services: Assessment of Investments, Participant Investment Advice and Separate
Agreement Participant Services.
Discretionary Advisory Services: Default Investment Alternative Management,
Investment Manager to Plan
Other Services: Participant Education, Communication and Disclosures; Strategic Planning and Investment
Policy Services; Plan Review; Plan Fee and Cost Review; Third Party Service Provider Liaison; Executive
Benefits; Plan Conversion
Cedar Mountain Advisors and its representatives shall exercise their authority in accordance with objectives set forth
the Plan as may be amended from time to time and in accordance with additional written guidelines and/or investment
policies. The execution of securities transactions for the Plan will be made through brokers or dealers that Cedar
Mountain Advisors believes will be consistent with its best execution obligation.
An independent service provider may provide various administrative services to the plan including, among other
things, facilitating plan participant investment decisions such as the selection and modification of their investment
elections.
Fee Based Financial Planning Agreement
Cedar Mountain Advisors offers financial planning services as part of an Independent Financial Planning Agreement.
As specified by this agreement, relevant reports, analysis, and documents are developed and presented to clients on
an individual basis. Financial planning scenarios, observations and recommendations are illustrated in these materials.
Developing the plan includes meeting with you to document your objectives and goals, as well as gathering all
information necessary to provide you with the appropriate and agreed upon services, which may include one or more
of the following:
Investment Planning
Investment Policy Statements
Financial Independence
Retirement Planning
Capital Needs Analysis (Goal Funding)
Estate Planning
Education Planning
Risk Management (Life and Disability Insurance)
Employee Stock Option Planning
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These services are delivered based on the specified services and fees outlined in our independent financial planning
agreement. These services are apart from similar or identical services which may or may not be provided on a
circumstantial basis to clients as part of another asset management agreement. You are encouraged to review your
plans on a regular basis.
Consultations
Clients may contract with Cedar Mountain representatives for consultations on any topic of interest to the client. Cedar
Mountain representatives and the client will determine how many meetings are required to complete the
consultations. You will have the ultimate authority to determine when the consultations are finished.
Qualified Plan Consultation Services
Cedar Mountain representatives will provide review and monitoring services to qualified retirement plan accounts
established with outside custodians. These services can be provided to individual client accounts within a plan or to a
plan administrator for review of the entire plan and can include the following:
Strategic Plan Consulting
Assessment of Investments
Plan Fee and Cost Review
Plan Service Review
Investment Policy Services
Participant Education and Communication
Participant Investment Advice
Separate Agreement Participation Service
Cedar Mountain representatives will review accounts and provide recommendations regarding the implementation
and allocation of the investments in the account and any new funds deposited into the account. However, all trade
implementation in these accounts will be your responsibility. If you establish a Cedar Mountain Advisors representative
as an interested party on the account, a copy of the statement must be delivered directly to the Cedar Mountain
representative
Law Firm Consultation Services
With client authorization, Cedar Mountain Advisors consults with local law firms which provide financial analyses and
opinions relative to portfolio holdings and future costs for our clients. The law firms are responsible for providing the
representatives with the specific client information to be analyzed and the representatives will rely solely on that client
information in developing their reviews and opinions.
4d: Wrap Fee Program
Cedar Mountain Advisors does not sponsor any wrap fee programs.
4e: Assets under Management (AUM)
Cedar Mountain Advisors, as of December 31, 2023, has $618,236,911 in discretionary reportable Assets under
Management and $251,818,676 in non-discretionary reportable Assets under Management for a total of
$870,055,587.